Adapting the classroom to make directions that ensure students with special needs know what to do prior to working independently.
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How do you create/do it?
1. Verbally present the task. (This can be applied to the whole class, particularly when students are having problems with the directions. You can accommodate the needs of individual students by paring a worksheet with an auditory tape explaining directions.)
2. Add practice examples that you can do with the whole class or small groups.
3. Write alternative sets of directions.
4. Highlight the important words in the directions.
5. Have students help each other when directions are difficult.
nWhat are the benefits?
Seat work should provide opportunities for students to practice skills that they have already learned, not teach them new skills.
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What are some examples/reminders?
Having students work independently on a review assignment of a concept that they have already learned in any of the subject areas.
What is it?
Adapting the classroom to make directions that ensure students with special needs know what to do prior to working independently.
nHow do you create/do it?
1. Verbally present the task. (This can be applied to the whole class, particularly when students are having problems with the directions. You can accommodate the needs of individual students by paring a worksheet with an auditory tape explaining directions.)
2. Add practice examples that you can do with the whole class or small groups.
3. Write alternative sets of directions.
4. Highlight the important words in the directions.
5. Have students help each other when directions are difficult.
nWhat are the benefits?
Seat work should provide opportunities for students to practice skills that they have already learned, not teach them new skills.
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What are some examples/reminders?
Having students work independently on a review assignment of a concept that they have already learned in any of the subject areas.
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What are links/resources?
Including Students with Special Needs: A partial guide for classroom teachers. (Pearson Publishing):
Sensible seatwork
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Oral directions & asking questions, Adapting seatwork assignments, Adapting homework assignments